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Marie Harf: I’m “too nuanced” for you (Head hunter for Islamic terrorists)
PowerlineBlog.com ^ | 2/17/2015 | Scott Johnson

Posted on 02/17/2015 6:46:46 PM PST by raybbr

Wolf Blitzer invited Marie Harf on CNN’s Situation Room this afternoon. Blitzer sought her out to expand on her remarks on the administration’s approach to dealing with the Islamic State terrorists. Harf thinks that we must attack old-fashioned “root causes” of the material kind. Harf is promoting Great Society liberalism as the answer to “violent extremism.”

Great Society liberalism couldn’t even cut it in the United States with more limited (if still ambitious) goals. Touting the rollout of Great Society liberalism worldwide as the answer to religious fanaticism betrays a mind-boggling stupidity.

Jobs programs don’t quite cut it when you’re in the 72 virgins business. This is where the administration’s comprehensive denial of the motive forces driving the terrorists is key. They aren’t looking for work. They aren’t looking to get rich. They aren’t looking for daycare programs. They’ve got something else on their mind, something else that is taboo to speak of in the higher reaches of the Obama administration.

“I’m not the first person to say something like this,” Harf said this afternoon. “Military commanders that we’ve had throughout many years here fighting this war on terrorism have said the exact same thing, that in the short term when there’s a threat like ISIL. We’ll take direct military action against these terrorists. We have done that. We are doing that in Iraq and Syria. But longer term, we have to look at how we combat the conditions that can lead people to turn to extremism.”

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: harf; jobs4jihadis; josephkony; kenyanbornmuzzie; marieharf; nuanced; waronterror
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To: Lumper20

I worked in embassies and consulates for 22 years, 1975-1997. I worked with a lot of Foreign Service Officers who were good patriotic Americans, some were even veterans. On the whole, however, they were a bunch of moonbats. I occasionally see them on Facebook and they slobber over the Obamas. I have to hold my tongue.


41 posted on 02/17/2015 7:49:03 PM PST by Ax
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To: ez

For someone with such an unnuanced nick, you seem more intelligent than 100% of the gov,t....;-)


42 posted on 02/17/2015 7:51:20 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: raybbr

When she says it’s because of jobs, she’s defending their actions.

Obama and his administration are “muslim extremist sympathizers” at the very least.


43 posted on 02/17/2015 7:55:24 PM PST by boycott
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To: Billthedrill

Good post.


44 posted on 02/17/2015 7:57:08 PM PST by nomorelurker
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To: raybbr

No she is a bubble headed bleached blond with a gleam in her eye POS leftist commie pinko f stick


45 posted on 02/17/2015 8:05:08 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: MeshugeMikey

46 posted on 02/17/2015 8:05:45 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: raybbr
marie harf photo: marie 007.jpg

"Would you like to supersize that nuance?"

47 posted on 02/17/2015 8:08:07 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: raybbr

“too nuanced” in her world means “you’re too stupid to understand this”


48 posted on 02/17/2015 8:08:58 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: raybbr

“But longer term, we have to look at how we combat the conditions that can lead people to turn to extremism.”

Yes, and lets start here in the US, where politicians use class warfare and false narratives to stir unrest and solicit votes.


49 posted on 02/17/2015 8:14:38 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: raybbr

She should have thrown in midnight basketball, free cell phones, EbT cards, welfare and mj for their depression.


50 posted on 02/17/2015 8:19:51 PM PST by Grampa Dave (When will Sisi, Bibi, King Abdullah take out Isis in our White House, AG Dept, CIA, & media?)
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To: Amagi

In Indian the joke is: What’s the difference between a Cadillac and a girl from I.U.?

Not everyone has been in a Cadillac.


51 posted on 02/17/2015 8:30:21 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: raybbr

Look at the bright side, WE’RE PAYING HER SALARY AND HER “SMART” PHONE BILL. Anybody still confused as to why TEA Party people are so pissed off?


52 posted on 02/17/2015 8:31:27 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Illegal Aliens' Message to Americans. Hands Up, Don't Breathe!)
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To: jospehm20

Why would he? It’s all Al-Taqiyaa with him, 24/7, 365.


53 posted on 02/17/2015 8:37:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: raybbr

Nuances are subtle. This Obama flack’s idiocy is bold and obvious...


54 posted on 02/17/2015 8:38:05 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: raybbr

Marie Harf promoting the Bush Doctrine

How ironic
And how utterly intellectually bankrupt


55 posted on 02/17/2015 8:40:47 PM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Ax

Have a good friend who was 32 CIA in SA . He ended up in top 5 of NSA.


56 posted on 02/17/2015 8:43:25 PM PST by Lumper20 ( clown in Chief has own Gov employees Gestapo)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I think that the glasses make her look smart.


57 posted on 02/17/2015 8:44:34 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Grampa Dave

Maybe midnight head soccer?


58 posted on 02/17/2015 8:47:06 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: NonValueAdded

#4 very funny : )


59 posted on 02/17/2015 8:53:58 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: raybbr

IF what Marie Harf is saying is true and correct, how come we do not see a rise of radical terrorism in more poor 3rd world counties and in 3rd world counties where there are other religions ? Marie Harf needs to go on FOX NEWS and asked their very question.

Poorpobia ? Being poor does not make a terrorist, is that what Marie is advocating here ? That the poor are terrorist now ?


60 posted on 02/17/2015 8:58:22 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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